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Avoid brittle fracture in pressure vessels
Key points identify effects from auto-refrigeration on steel vessels
Flare stack structure revamp: A case history
An innovative approach was used to repair an older flare structure online without an extensive shutdown
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard turns four: What’s next?
An in-depth look at the standard
Process safety: Blind spots and red flags
Improving safety for organizations involve more than technological solutions; understanding processes and plant interactions are a must
Case 61: Pressure loss in a reactor
Much information is available from a simple analysis
Avoid these top-10 instrumentation headaches
Visual engineering program solves designer and engineer issues across the industry
HP Reliability: Oil mist and electric motor windings
We often get questions relating to oil mist and how it affects electric motor windings. For a quick answer, contact us at Gulf Publishing via e-mail. We’ll steer you in the right direction by exp..
HP Integration Strategies: Terminal automation: More challenging than it looks
Due to increasing market, competitive, regulatory and social pressures, terminal automation is more important today than ever before. Nevertheless, many smaller petroleum-product terminals continue to..
HP Water Management: Passivation in cooling water circuits
Passivation—the formation of a corrosion-resistant oxide on a clean metal surface—is the key to optimizing system reliability on the waterside of heat exchangers. Most plant personnel are aw..
HP Construction: North America
Sasol plans to construct what is said to be the world’s first commercial ethylene tetramerization unit, capable of producing over 100,000 metric tpy of combined 1-octene and 1-hexene at its Lake ..
- U.S. firms to develop Syria energy masterplan after Trump lifts sanctions 7/18
- Russian seaborne diesel exports for July 1–15 fall 6% month-on-month 7/18
- INEOS invests £30 MM to slash emissions at Hull site by 75% 7/18
- Mitsubishi Chemical Group invests in Licella Holdings, oil conversion technology using supercritical water 7/18
- BASF and Equinor sign 10-yr natural gas supply agreement 7/18
- Oil prices rise after new EU sanctions on Russia 7/18
